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Dec 4, 2024 | 
kneedeeptimes.org | Jacoba Charles
This is a season when many northern Californian gardeners feel an urge to tidy. Fallen leaves carpet lawns and yard furniture; the annual flowers and vegetables that brought joy throughout spring and summer have turned brown. For many of us, the siren song of compost piles and leaf blowers grows louder every day; it is an ingrained time to trim, pull, and rake all the dead material out of sight.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
kneedeeptimes.org | Jacoba Charles
“Three quarters of our youth describe the future as ‘frightening’ and they are worried that we are not talking about it.” Petaluma School District In a sixth grade classroom, children are exploring their power—specifically, their own ability to make fossil-fuel-free wind energy.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
kneedeeptimes.org | Jacoba Charles
As September unfolded into October, a record-setting heat wave extended across the Bay Area. Forecasts of more moderate 80-degree days kept vanishing, mirage-like, to be replaced by highs of 90 and 100 degrees. Autumn events including San Francisco’s annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival were smothered in the unprecedented heat, and relief when the marine layer returned was nearly universal.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
kneedeeptimes.org | Jacoba Charles
“There are many more homes built up against the open space than there were 40 or 50 years ago.” Mayor Pro Tem, Ross It is a dry summer day in the midst of a heat wave in the forested hills of Marin County.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
kneedeeptimes.org | Jacoba Charles
“There are many more homes built up against the open space than there were 40 or 50 years ago.” Mayor Pro Tem, Ross It is a dry summer day in the midst of a heat wave in the forested hills of Marin County.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
mavensnotebook.com | Jacoba Charles
By Jacoba Charles, Knee Deep TimesWhat, precisely, is the value of habitat restoration? While answers tend to aim for pristine nature and thriving wildlife, one approach — recently published in the journal Nature — has assigned salt marsh restoration projects a dollar value in terms of human assets protected from climate change driven flooding. This novel approach uses the same models engineers use to evaluate the value of “gray” solutions such as levees and seawalls.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
kneedeeptimes.org | Jacoba Charles
The Bay Area filled or destroyed the majority of its 190,000 acres of historic tidal wetlands — natural buffers against waves, storms and sea level rise — over the last 200 years, with only 40,000 acres remaining by the 1990s. In recent decades, the region’s marsh extent has crept back up to 80,000 acres thanks to modern restoration projects (with 24,000 acres of additional restoration projects in the pipeline).
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
mavensnotebook.com | Jacoba Charles
By Jacoba Charles, Estuary News GroupAquatic plants tend to hide in plain sight, overlooked other than the occasional striking flower, or unnerving tendril brushing the leg of a summer swimmer. With a few exceptions—certain anglers, perhaps, or birders—people rarely notice details beyond a mass of green floating on the water. And of course, many species of aquatic plant don’t emerge from the surface at all, spending their lives out of human view.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
kneedeeptimes.org | Alastair Bland |Jacoba Charles
The waves that inevitably undercut his projects, until they collapsed, eventually drew him into the water. Here, he embraced their energy in progressively immersive ways—first through swimming, then bodyboarding, then surfing. “That solidified my whole coexistence with, and identity centered on, the ocean,” he says. Janoff’s fascination with ocean processes, coastal erosion, and nature’s impacts on human infrastructure steered his education.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
kneedeeptimes.org | Jacoba Charles
“Greenbelt is trying to create a dialogue on resilience among NGOs, elected officials, businesses, advocacy groups. We’ll see what fruit it bears.” CCCR In the face of a crisis as incremental, complex and vast as climate change, it can be hard to know how and where to take meaningful action on a local scale.
